Judges 9:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Then his mother’s brethren spake of him in the audience of all the men of Shechem, all these words: and their hearts were moved to follow Abimelech: for said they, He is our brother.
4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith, wherewith Abimelech hired [a]vain and light fellows which followed him.
5 And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and [b]slew his brethren, the sons of Jerubbaal, about seventy persons upon one stone: yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left: for he hid himself.
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- Judges 9:4 Or, idle fellows and vagabonds.
- Judges 9:5 Thus tyrants to establish their usurped power, spare not the innocent blood, 2 Kings 10:7; 2 Chron. 21:4.
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